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A mixed bag of news this week as after a small delay the Game Master’s Kit for the Talisman Adventures Fantasy RPG from Pegasus Spiele is finally available for purchase on their webstore and I imagine will be making its way to regular stores soon! I’ll be showing mine off when it arrives, hopefully in the next week or so.
Some expected, but sad, news has been confirmed by the people at Galakta that (as expected) their agreement to produce localised versions of the Revised 4th Edition of Talisman, Magia i Miecz, has now come to an end. Hopefully this means that something new will appear on the horizon at some point, so fingers crossed for that.
There’s been an update in the availability of the English language version of Talisman which surprisingly was put into stock at GAME stores in the last couple of weeks. I’ve seen a lot of posting over on Twitter about it from various branches, so check out your local shop in the UK to see what they might have!
A short while ago I made a post with a list of projected release dates for some of the French localisations of the Revised 4th Edition of Talisman from Matagot and a couple of licensed versions from Asmodee Italia, and it seems that they have slipped a little due to whatever is going on in the world currently.
The entire batch of new localised expansions in French (Highland, City, Blood Moon, Sacred Pool, Dragon, Woodland and Lost Realms) have been put back to January 2022, the Italian translation of Talisman: Kingdom Hearts Edition is now marked as December 2021* and the Talisman: Star Wars Edition translation is not mentioned at all!
*This has now slipped to January too…
The GM’s Kit from Pegasus Spiele is likely running a little late too, as the recently released Accessory Pack for Talisman Adventures Fantasy RPG has only just been made available.
I’ve no idea what is happening with the previously announced card game Talisman: Clash of Heroes, as there has been a complete absence of news on that front. In fact, the news well has been completely dry of late from all corners of the globe apart from a few snippets gleaned here and there.
Here’s to something over the next few weeks/months as we head towards 2022!
Talisman at the Matagot & Friends store
Those busy people over at Matagot have recently relaunched the Matagot & Friends webstore and added in some of the latest French localisations for the Revised 4th Edition of Talisman with ‘expected’ dates!
The latest run of expansions should be hitting their virtual shelves in October and November, but of course worldwide shipping is a little bit problematic to say the least.
One thing of note is the brand new French edition of Les Royaumes Perdus, which means that for the first time you can grab an official copy of The Deep Realms expansion in French!
Something that I noticed was that the blurb on the site mentions that it includes the two expansions – Le Royaume de l’Au-delà & Les Royaumes Enfouis, which is interesting as The Nether Realm was previously released in France by Edge Entertainment under the title Le Royaume d’Outre Monde (and I believe The Deep Realms was going to be Les Royaumes des Profondeurs!!)
I know that I’ve mentioned that I won’t be trying to hunt down EVERY language version of the game now, but I’ll have to make an exception for this latest version of the expansion!
Katie, our roving reporter and social media manager here at Talisman Island has been keeping her ear to the ground and come up with a great bit of news for our French speaking friends!
Editions Matagot have announced over on their Instagram page that the next round of localised expansions for the Revised 4th Edition of Talisman will be arriving in October and November this year.
So if you haven’t managed to score a French-language version of The Highland, The Dragon, The Blood Moon, The Sacred Pool, The Lost Realms, The City and The Woodland, now is your chance to correct that oversight!
(Maybe they will update it there too!)
So, I finally removed myself from the timesink and general recipe for bad headspace that is Facebook, and am now concentrating on the site proper, and a little bit of Twitter.
Of course, as soon as I did that I discovered some news that I’d not seen about the newest expansion to be localised into Spanish by MasQueOca, La Marcha Helada (The Frostmarch) which will be released at some point towards the end of the year!
I was also sent a couple of expansions by the prolific Reedstilt to upload to the site, which you can grab right now in the Resources section of the site.
In other news, UK Games Expo began today in its limited form, and I believe there is some Talisman Adventures Fantasy RPG being played there today and tomorrow with Jimi, so if you are there you should look him up.
I’ve no other information about what might be going on there, but if you happen to see anything on your travels, please fire over an email with the hot gossip.
It looks like the new Talisman: Harry Potter Edition from The Op is now going to be available in September, but obviously things aren’t quite back to normal by any stretch so we’ll see how that goes. I’m surprised that there’s been no official announcement as yet, but I’m sure it’s all in hand for a big splash at some point.
That’s about all I can think of for now, but hopefully I’ll be posting more going forward as previously mentioned, so I’ll see you soon!
I’m a little late to the party with this news (though I did post about it on the Talisman Island Facebook page!) that Pegasus Spiele have announced that Tim Huckelbery has been hired as their new US Studio Editor and Talisman Brand Manager!
Tim has a long pedigree in the gaming industry, having worked for Games Workshop and Fantasy Flight Games (amongst others!) in the past, even being responsible for the 3rd Edition reprint of Talisman whilst he was with GW USA!
The exciting bit about this news is that it appears that Pegasus Spiele will be putting more focus on the Talisman ‘brand’ in future, so we should see lots of news going forward.
Fingers crossed after we see the physical copies of the new Talisman Adventures Fantasy RPG we might hear some more about the Talisman card game – Clash of Heroes – and the dice game that was also in development.
I wouldn’t say no to an expansion for Talisman: Legendary Tales either!
Maybe we’ll finally get to see if anything is happening with the Revised 4th Edition of Talisman and the expansion that was teased last year during SPIEL at Essen.
This weekend sees CONspiracy 4, another online convention from Pegasus Spiele, where I believe we will see a stream from the US Studio with some of the current and upcoming products, so here’s hoping for namechecks for Talisman!
There’s been a nice little update in the licensed merchandise for Talisman that is available from the Warhammer Merch Store with a fabulous new design featuring the cover artwork from the boardgame!
It’s available in three coloured variants (Black, Navy Blue and Olive Green), plus a White version AND (finally!) a women’s fitted t shirt in Black!
I’ll certainly be snagging one as soon as possible, but don’t worry, I won’t be modelling again… #dodgedabullet
Just when you think you’ve collected enough copies of Talisman, they go and release another one!
I noticed on BoardGameGeek today that someone had uploaded a new cover image for the Korean-language localisation of the Revised 4th Edition of Talisman, and on further investigation it seems that they are releasing The Reaper expansion too!
It seems that Mandoo Games is the publisher and sales are made via Hobby Game Mall in Korea, though I could be mistaken about that.
The problem I now face is whether to pick these up or not!?
I’ve resisted recent releases as there seemed no real benefit to picking up the same edition of the game when reprinted by another publisher, but of course this is a completely new edition. Add to that The Frostmarch expansion recently released by REXhry in the Czech Republic and The Reaper expansion coming soon from MasQueOca in Spain and you can see how it snowballs!
That’s not even taking into consideration the localisations of Talisman: Legendary Tales in French, Japanese and Polish from Matagot, Hobby Japan and Galakta!!!
Send help…
Over the years we’ve seen a few attempts at fan fiction in the lands of Talisman, but up until now I don’t think there has been a comic strip based on the famous Magical Quest Game.
Łukasz Pawlak, under the name Ed Luka, has done just that and although originally in Polish, they are now being posted in English!
You can check out the adventures of the Warrior in the first lot, and it seems that the Troll won’t be far behind.
Just a small warning that there is a bit of colourful language to be seen, but I’m sure you will probably be okay with it!
I commented over on Instagram that the title artwork (shown above) would make a great t-shirt design and I’m in the process of having one made up just for fun which I’ll show you all when it gets here.
